Showing posts with label jazz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jazz. Show all posts

Monday, 26 January 2015

Upcoming gigs

Hello!
Long time no blog! Apologies, I've been completely snowed under, mixing and producing the debut album by FU-CHING-GIDO, my band with the wonderful drummer Fu-ching. The release is imminent, and I'll no doubt be going crazy publicising it, so you'll be hearing plenty about it. We're also planning an album release party, which is looking like it should be a really great night. I'll be letting you know all about that one very soon too.
And I've been a bit useless about updating my latest releases and discography too. I'll soon do a big post and bring it all up to date. There have been some nice things I've been involved with recently, including two releases by Cicala Mvta.

Anyhoo, in the near future I have a couple of gigs I'd like to tell you about.

First up, on February 4th, is a FU-CHING-GIDO gig at Yellow Vision in Asagaya, opening for a great band, Pachikuri Elegance, led by the great bassist Higo Hiroshi. Fu-ching and I will be giving it our all, and fingers crossed, we might even have a new song!

Following that, on February 7th, my ancient funk band, Nerima Tea Club will be playing with the fantastic Iizuka Naoko, Fukushima Hisao + Kosmas Kopitza Trio. We had such a great time sharing the bill last year at Cafe Flying Teapot, that we decided we had to do it again!

Do come along and say hello!




Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Nerima Tea Club Double-bill!

August 30th


NERIMA TEA CLUB 
meets the 
飯塚直 / 福島久雄 / KosmasKapitza TRIO

19:30 open 20:00 start
2000円 + order

Nerima Tea Club

Gideon Juckes - tuba
Yoshigaki Yasuhiro - percussion
Tatsumi Kogoro - trumpet
Komori Keiko - bass clarinet
Ohkuchi Shunsuke - accordion


飯塚直 / 福島久雄 / KosmasKapitza TRIO

飯塚直 Nao Iizuka/recorders (たて笛) 
福島久雄 HisaoFukushima/guitar
 コスマスカピッツァ KosmasKapitza/perc


Sunday, 30 March 2014

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

2 New Releases, Europe and Fuji Rock

EUROPE

Greetings! I've just returned from a two-week European tour with Orquesta Libre, and it was a really fantastic time. The audiences in England, Denmark, Bavaria and Switzerland were brilliant and it was great catching up with family, old friends and making some new ones. And everyone was so kind to us, and the food was amazingly good! That's not how I remember Europe!!

 Good times in Passau

Mama Carola's incredible Tirolean cuisine!

A real high point was our stay in Passau, in Bayern on the Austrian border. We stayed with the wonderful Mama and Papa Carola and Heinz, who looked after us so well. Carola seemed to have a constant supply of delicious hearty Bavarian specialities flying out of her kitchen, while Heinz had a truly remarkable schnapps collection in which he indulged us with glee. And the concerts at the Cafe Museum at Passau were also fantastic, a very attentive audience who loved our versions of Kurt Weill.
It was a wonderful time, and we're all hoping that a European tour will become an annual tradition!

NEW RELEASES

While I was away, there have been two new releases. The first is a pop record. I play on two tracks on the new CD by singer/songwriter Angela Aki, "Blue".


I play on the title track-




And the track "Monster"-




You can buy it HERE


The other new release is the online release of a very special live set by Orquesta Libre-


Volume 3 of our "Live at Pit Inn" series features special guests pianist Suga Dairo, and tap dancers Uragami Yuji and Ron x II, playing a set of new arrangements of Duke Ellington, It truly was an amazing performance, and I strongly recommend picking this one up! It's available for download HERE

FUJI ROCK 2012

As I mentioned here a couple of weeks ago, this year is my first Fuji Rock, and I'll be playing twice, this Sunday, 29th July, with both Orquesta Libre (special guest Ohata Yuichi), and Shibusashirazu Orchestra. Both sets are taking place at Orange Court. Orquesta Libre start at 13:20, and Shibusashirazu start at 21:00. I hope to see you there! They say Fuji Rock is one for the wellies (like it's UK equivalent Glastonbury), but this year it looks like it will be an absolute scorcher! Boots and sunblock?


Thursday, 19 April 2012

New Release- Orquesta Libre

This is a big year year for Orquesta Libre. We have tours, festivals and residencies to look forward to (watch this space for more information very soon!), not to mention 3 debut CD releases! As if the group hadn't decided to be prolific enough, we have kicked off proceedings with the online-only release of "Orquesta Libre with おおはた雄一 Plays Standards vol.1 -Live at PIT INN", a live recording of our gig at Shinjuku Pit Inn from Feb 5th. It's available for download from OTOTOY




<Orquesta Libre>
青木 タイセイ / Taisei Aoki (Trombone、arrangement)
塩谷 博之 / Hiroyuki Shiotani (Clarinet、Soprano Saxophone)
藤原 大輔 / Daisuke Fujiwara (Tenor Saxophone)
渡辺 隆雄 / Takao Watanabe (Trumpet)
Gideon Juckes (Tuba)
高良 久美子 / Kumiko Takara (Vibraphone)
鈴木 正人 / Masato Suzuki (Bass、arrangement)
椎谷 求 / Motomu Shiiya (Guitar、Steel Guitar)
岡部 洋一 / Yoichi Okabe (Percussion)
芳垣 安洋 / Yasuhiro Yoshigaki (Drums、arrangement)

<Special Guest>
おおはた雄一 / Yuichi Ohata (Vocal、Guitar)



The website is Japanese only, so good luck navigating! There is talk of the site developing an English language version soon. I'll keep you posted. 

I shall also keep you posted about the release of 'Live at Pit inn Volume 2', with special guest Yanagihara Yoichiro, due for release very soon.

Saturday, 25 February 2012

NERIMA TEA CLUB で御座います!


NERIMA TEA CLUB- 21世紀サロン三ュージック



ついにこの時がやってきた!長らく温めていた僕らのバンドのデビューの時です!NERIMA TEA CLUB!!
4月7日!カフェ ムリウイにて初のデビューライブ!最高の夜になるこの時を、この場所で僕たちと共に祝いましょう!



NERIMA TEA CLUB 

小春 Koharu - accordion
芳垣安洋 Yoshigaki Yasuhiro - drums and percussion 



NERIMA TEA CLUBは、フランス、カタロニア、イギリス、パレスチナの音楽、そして僕自身Gideon Juckesの作曲を取り入れたスタイルの音楽です。そして今回は、僕の父親Paul Juckesが作曲した曲も演奏します!


こちらがライブフライヤーです。そして是非Twitterにてのフォローもお待ちしています。





Thursday, 16 February 2012

Introducing NERIMA TEA CLUB


NERIMA TEA CLUB- new salon music for the 21st Century


I'm very excited to announce the long-awaited debut of my new group, NERIMA TEA CLUB! We'll be playing our first gig at Cafe MURIWUI on April 7th, and it's looking like it'll be a great night, so come and celebrate with us!


NERIMA TEA CLUB 

Koharu 小春 - accordion
Yoshigaki Yasuhiro 芳垣安洋 - drums and percussion 



We'll be putting our mark on a mixture of music from France, Catalonia, England and Palestine, plus compositions by me, and also music written by my Dad, Paul Juckes.


Here's our flyer, and also you can can follow us on Twitter